■ History
The Crimean Tatar community had been facing sought permission to build a mosque on the location of the current site since 1996, but the requests were rejected by the Sevastopol City Council for various reasons (a positive decision was made in 2004, but this was rolled back in 2008), which occasionally proposed to change the location from Yalta Highway 22 to Logovaya Street 6. In January 2008 the Tatars erected a tent city on the location in protest of the inaction of the council and began to transport around 100,000 limestone pieces to the site. When in February 2008 the Economic Court of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea demanded that the city council issue a construction permit for the location along the Yalta Highway, the then head of Simferopol, Gennady Babenko, declared: Firstly, the decision of the Economic Court [of Crimea] has not yet entered into force, and, of course, we will certainly appeal. And secondly, the absolute majority of city residents insistently demand that there should be a forest park zone... If other religious confessions raised questions about the construction of their temples in the protected zone, near the reservoir, from which we actually drink water, our attitude towards them would be exactly the same. Contact the environmentalists, contact the water resources management department — they will tell you everything and show you. It’s actually about people’s health and lives, you see? In October 2009, the New York Times reported on the project and the local divisions connected to it among the locals, such as citing Tatar concerns that the city wouldn’t follow through on promises to grant permits in the proposed alternative locations and accusing it of NIMBYism. Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People member Refat Chubarov was quoted saying that the mosque project was expected to cost more than $10 million, most of which would be provided by Turkish and other foreign donors.Finally, on 15 February 2011 the City Council relented and voted to issue a construction permit to the Spiritual Direction of the Muslims of Crimea for the 2,8 hectare plot and the Crimean Tatar community placed a large memorial stone on the location of the future mosque in March. However, the construction was scheduled to begin only in April 2014 to correspond with a summit between the presidents of Ukraine and Turkey, who would also unveil the construction site. The project was then postponed due to the Russian annexation.Construction works were restarted in September 2015, with the deadline moved multiple times from early 2020 to 2021. In September 2015, the partially-recognised Grand Mufti of Crimea, Emirali Ablayev announced that the construction project would be funded by Turkish authorities and built by a Turkish construction company. However, private donations from local and Russian donors were also raised.

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